Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Contributors: William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Publisher: Harvard University
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Immigrants; History; Social conditions; Emigration and immigration
Other titles: Open Collections Program; Open Collections Program at Harvard University.
Description: Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. These full-text resources are publicly available via the World Wide Web and are fully searchable. This collection documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Illustrated in the collection are salient themes of immigration to the U.S., including acculturation, nativism, racism and prejudice, homesteading, and industrialization. Governing policies are also documented. Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, the collection includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on Nov. 28, 2006).

The Harvard University Library Open Collections Program was established in Nov. 2002 with a grant from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.